MAGA, Trump and Epstein
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When asked on Monday why the president does not just order the FBI to release the full Epstein files, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt left the ball in the bureau’s court and claimed it was up to the attorney general.
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Maria Farmer talks to CNN’s Erin Burnett about an interaction she had with former President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was 25. The White House denies that President Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein’s office.
The Wall Street Journal engaged in "fake and defamatory conduct," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged.
MAGA wants the Epstein files. Democrats want to help. Delivering the full files regarding Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy and well-connected financier who died by hanging in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors,
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Nearly a dozen House Republicans have joined an effort to compel the release of all Jeffrey Epstein-related government files
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he does not plan to allow votes on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House’s final week in Washington before a weekslong recess, despite intense pressure from some of his own GOP members to go on the record on the issue.
The Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.
The House won’t vote on several Republican-led pieces of legislation this week as the party remains in a state of paralysis over what to do with proposals to release files related to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Annie Farmer believes the case has been politicised and says the recent wave of publicity has left her feeling "used" and exhausted.